Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggestion of General George C. Kenney that the U.S. should bomb Communist bases in Manchuria: "[It is] no way to end the [Korean] conflict unless we are prepared to put 5,000,000 men in there on the ground." As to General Kenney, who headed World War II Pacific air operations, Truman slurred him off as "MacArthur's flyboy...
...first official act last week, Secretary Wilson barred all officers and employees from taking part in departmental dealings with firms in which they have a financial stake. In case of possible conflict of interest, the decisions are to be made by "someone else of equal or higher rank" in the department...
Rhinelander said there are different approaches to the study of the humanities, but stressed that they are complementary, not in conflict. "The direct aesthetic experience of a work of art may be blind, if it is not enlightened by a knowledge of the work's historical context and the course of critical opinion and analysis...
Picnic's drama is in the conflict of a beautiful young girl, who must choose between a stable, uninteresting, but rich young man or a poor, confused, dynamic intruder. In a skillful first act, Inge makes it clear that his resolution in the second act is an inevitability. The third ties up the consequences. Except for occasional dramatic irony dealing with a few frustrated school teachers, the action is tense and expectant, moving, as one reviewer has already commented, "from climax to climax...
...Senate Armed Services Committee. The sum of the reports that leaked from the committee's executive session was a very bad press for Wilson. Column after column of type left the impression that he was being arrogant, that he didn't understand how there could be a conflict of interests between private business and Government, that he was going to have things his way, or else...